australia:birds
birds of Australia
Introduction
- Australia is fortunate in having a divers range of birds many of which seasonally migrate to remote regions including the far northern hemisphere regions
- some bird families are unique to Australia such as the emu, lyrebirds, scrub-birds, pardalotes, Australian mud-nesters, and tree-creeper.
Main bird families
- emus
- most of Australia except for rainforests
- cassowaries
- Southern Cassowary - tropical far north Queensland coast
- ostriches
- not native to Australia but farmed in South Australia and some feral ones may exist
- grebes
- penguins
- the Little Penguin is the only penguin that breeds in Australia (also in NZ)
- albatrosses
- petrels and shearwaters
- storm petrels
- diving petrels
- pelicans
- gannets and boobies
- darters
- cormorants and shags
- frigatebirds
- tropicbirds
- herons, egrets and bitterns
- storks
- ibises and spoonbills
- geese, swans and ducks
- osprey
- kites, goshawks, eagles and harriers
- falcons
- mound-builders
- quails and pheasants
- button-quails
- plains-wanderer
- rails, crakes, swamphens, and coots
- cranes
- bustards
- jacanas
- thick-knees (stone curlews)
- painted snipe
- oystercatchers
- lapwings, plovers and dotterels
- stilts and avocets
- curlews, sandpipers, snipes and godwits
- phalaropes
- pratincoles
- skuas and jaegers
- gulls and terns
- pigeons and doves
- cockatoos
- yellow-tailed black cockatoo (SE Aust)
- glossy black cockatoo (NSW coast extending into eastern Vic and SE Qld))
- Gang-Gang cockatoo (mid grey with scarlet head; SE Aust)
- galah (light grey and pink; most of Aust except Tas, tropical far north Qld/NT and SW WA)
- long billed corella (white with bluish skin around eyes; western Vic)
- pink cockatoo (pink with white wings and white skin around eyes; central Australia including western Murray Valley)
- sulphur-crested cockatoo (white with yellow crest; most of eastern Aust. extending to NT tropics)
- true parrots
- lorikeets
- rainbow lorikeet (green with dark blue head, bright red bill, yellow-green collar, deep violet-blue abdomen; most of eastern Aust. coastal regions extending to York Peninsula and Tas with some around Perth)
- scaly-breasted lorikeet (green including the head, red bill, yellow crescents on breast, flanks and thighs, orange-red underwing; most of east coast Aust.)
- musk lorikeet (bright green; black bill tipped red, scarlet forehead, lores and ear patches; most of eastern Aust. coastal regions extending to York Peninsula and Tas)
- fig-parrots
- long-tailed parrots
- Aust. king parrot (brilliant scarlet underparts, green back, blue rump, blackish-blue tail, green crescents on abdomen and undertail; male has scarlet head and neck but female has green; most of east coast Aust)
- broad-tailed parrots
- budgerigar (common pet; bright green, yellow throat; inland Aust)
- crimson rosella (elegans race: rich crimson and blue; some green immature; 7 races with different colorings; coastal eastern Aust and Murray Valley)
- parasitic cuckoos and coucals
- hawk owls
- barn owls
- frogmouths
- tawny frogmouth
- owlet-nightjars
- nightjars
- swiftlets and swifts
- kingfishers
- azure kingfisher
- laughing kookaburra
- bee-eaters
- rainbow bee-eater
- dollarbird (brown upper, blue throat, red bill and legs, green-blue wings, blue tail)
- rollers
- pittas
- superb lyrebird (east coast wet forests Melb-Brisbane)
- scrub-birds
- old world larks
- swallows and martins
- old world pipits and wagtails
- Richard's pipit
- cuckoo-shrikes and trillers
- black faced cuckoo-shrike
- white-winged triller
- bulbuls
- old world thrushes, flycatchers and allies
- Bassian thrush (SE coast)
- blackbird (SE Aust)
- song thrush (around Melbourne region)
- various robins incl. eastern yellow robin (yellow breast), rose robin, pink robin, scarlet robin, flame robin, red-capped robin, hooded robin
- Jacky Winter
- crested shrike-tit
- olive whistler, golden whistler, rufous whistler
- shrike-thrushes
- crested bellbird
- black-face monarch
- leaden flycatcher, satin flycatcher, restless flycatcher
- rufous fantail, grey fantail
- willie wagtail
- chowchillas, whipbirds, wedgebills, and quail-thrushes
- eastern whipbird
- spotted quail-thrush
- babblers
- grey crowned babbler
- old world warblers
- clamorous reed warbler
- little grassbird
- golden headed cisticola
- fairy wrens
- superb fairy wren (SE Aust extending to SE Qld and Yorke Peninsula)
- variegated fairy wren (inland Aust)
- southern emu wren (coastal Aust except tropical and subtropical north)
- bristlebirds, scrubwrens, gerygones, and thornbills
- pilotbird (east Vic, SE NSW coast)
- white-browed scrubwren
- weebill
- white-throated gerygone
- sittellas
- treecreepers
- honeyeaters
- chats
- sunbirds
- flowerpeckers
- pardalotes
- white-eyes
- true finches
- old world sparrows
- weavers, waxbills, grass-finches and mannikins
- starlings and mynahs
- orioles and figbirds
- drongos
- bowerbirds
- birds of paradise
- Australian mud-nesters
- magpie-larks
- woodswallows
- butcherbirds and currawongs
- ravens and crows
australia/birds.txt · Last modified: 2019/02/25 16:58 by gary1